flytaminC:
How can she be positive for 5 years without knowing and without ARV. Sounds impossible. Also within that 5 years, she never had sex with her husband

ceaser:


Getting married does not guarantee a 100% safety. If one of the partner gets infected thru the various ways available (wrongly or innocently), the other partner is at risk.

What would you say about Health Care Workers who got infected from patients in the line of diligently discharging their duties? D'you want 'em to blame God?

PureGoldh:
If you are still Single...Abstinence is the best option....Na e sure pass

Meanwhile,if you need Pure Original Honey.. Kindly call/Whatsapp 081 016 667 71 let's talk about it...No hug or handshake dx period fam..Stay Safe

Preshieben:
Just tested negative
Yeeehhhh
So happy

Amanda4life:



Please I need honey.

How much?

Kemblaze:
Having HIV is not the end of the world i didn`t have a choice as i was born with the virus now in still getting older and i havent died of the virus yet to me its not the virus that kills the patient but the thought of having the virus same thing applies to Convid-19 just ignor it and focuse more on your immune system till there is a confirmed cure for the virus.

perryy:


You don't have any virus. The anti body you tested positive to us not specific to HIV. Many things can make your body to produce that anti body. Take your peaceful mind off there and enjoy your life.

perryy:
Ogbeni, that your auntie has no HIV. The so called HIV drugs are general macrobicides that kills any bacteria, or fungi irrespective of the nature. Someone has HIV, she has been making love with her husband for over 5 years , yet the husband wasn't infected . Hahahaha. What manner of HIV was that ? If that is the case , it means HIV is not sexually transmitted. Forget about discordant couple balderdash, many HIV positive people I've met always have a negative partners! What is the reason for the discordance? Any scientific reason given so far ?

Truth is , your auntie had some ailments either caused by bacteria or fungi which the Dr couldn't really find out the cause . So, when she tested positive to HIV antibody, the whole blame was put on HIV as the cause. The anti body she tested positive to is not perculiar to HIV, malaria, pregnancy, and sixty other conditions could make the body produce the anti body which they call HIV ant body . Some anti HIV scientists conducted a test in a remote village in Japan where no contact has been made with people outside the community, some of them were found to be positive. Where did they get it from ? Some blood samples taken during the second world war were tested for HIV antibody, some of them came out positive. Do you know the meaning of that ? It means HIV has been in existence before man even discovered it. Now, if that is the case , by now more than half of world population would have been HIV positive and since the drugs were only made in the 20th century, the virus would have wiped out more than half of human race before the drugs were made. But did we have something like that ? No. HIV=Aids is a hoax . A virus is not a living thing hence incapable of mutation, if it gets into your body it either kill you in a short time or your body fights it off and you regain your health. It won't remain idle for years and woke up all of a sudden after 5-10 years. That is not a characteristic of a virus and don't let WHO tell you otherwise. I know someone who has been HIV positive for over 15 years , he smokes , drinks and do hard labour without taking any ARV, yet no sickness. On this same naira land , a guy posted last time that he was sleeping around with random ladies and he suddenly developed some symptoms which look like those of HIV , he went to a teaching hospital where tests were run but it turned out negative! What could be the cause of those symptoms? Some other people would have those symptoms and test positive, depending on the genotype or blood group . Imagine if he had tested positive to HIV, he would have been treated for HIV. As at the time the guy posted the information on naira land , the Dr has not been able to determine what was wrong with him so the guy came here to seek for help. Imagine if he had tested positive? May God open our eyes. Watch videos on YouTube and do more readings about this.

Preshieben:
Just tested negative
Yeeehhhh
So happy

Notyamate:
Going through this thread https://www.nairaland.com/5795526/how-found-out-hiv-positive/1 I went through comments and I laugh at the ignorance of some people on Nairaland. I'm sharing this story to people living with HIV reading this, you are not alone. Believe me there are many people out there with this disease, some happily married, growing old and having healthy kids.

On April 2013 my aunt got diagnosed with HIV at Catholic Hospital, Oluyoro. If you stay in Ibadan you'll know this hospital. She was 58 years at the time of her diagnosis. Before she was diagnosed she was getting sick and having symptoms like cold, head ache, sweating at night, and insomnia. We were worried because this is a person that hardly get sick, so we took her to a private hospital where the doctor told us she has typhoid. She was on drip for two days before discharge after that she was fine again. Not until 3 months later she started having those symptoms again, we didn't count it as anything and took her to that same hospital where she was given drips again. After the drips she was fine again.

The last straw was when she started vomiting and fainted on me, I was the only one at home that day. I performed CPR on her and then I decided to take her to a general hospital where proper medical examination can be done on her.

When we got there we queue, collect card and wait for doctor to attend to us. The doctor ask us some questions and the symptoms she has been having and for how long. After that the doctor directed us to where a nurse collected samples of her blood and we waited for the result.

When the doctor said she has HIV I couldn't believe my ears, all blood drained from my body and I was shaking. It was the last thing I expected because this was a person whose last born was 19years at the time. After she was diagnosed the doctor gave her drugs, she started explaining how to take the drug and how taking it everyday without missing a dose is important.

Our journey back home was quiet, I was thinking throughout, how did this happen? When we got home we meet my uncle (her husband) and we told her everything the doctor said. Everybody was just looking at one another, thinking 'we all don get HIV'.

The next morning my uncle took us all to the hospital to get tested and to know who and who have the disease. After going through the hospital routine our results came out. We were all tested negative including her husband, which brings all of us to ask, how did she get it? Till today no one knows. Her doctor says she has been living with it for over 5 years and none of us know including her.

My observations in her years of taking ARV drugs.

As I said earlier she was very sick when I took her to the hospital. Her CD4 count was 194, way too low. Normal CD4 count is from 500 to 1400. CD4 count is a test that measures how many CD4 cells you have in your blood. Low CD4 count means your body can't fight bacteria, viruses, and other invading germs.

Three months into the drugs she was tested again and her count was 242, another 3 months and it was 269.

She has been getting tested every six months and in the last five years her CD4 count has being between 340-390 and she hasn't suffer any illness whatsoever. Except for the drugs she's taken you won't know she has HIV.

How the drug is taken.

The drug is taken once in a day. It is left for you to decide when you want to take it but once you chose, you must be consistent with the time when you take the next dose so that it will be the exact time everyday. Doctors usually advise patients to take the drug at night because of the side effects which includes drowsiness and dizziness. The drug is taken 2 hrs after eating. When I asked the doctor why she said something about pepper and oil reacting with the drug.

The ARV drugs is free if you go to general hospital. The bottle contains 30 tablets to be complete in a month.

Important things you can do as an HIV person.

1. Avoid drinking alcohol/smoking as this can compromise your health condition. This is really very important.

2. Eat good and healthy food.

3. Exercise.

4. Eat a lot of fruit: her doctor emphasize on this. It doesn't have to be expensive, you can buy oranges, mangoes, bananas, watermelons and other cheap fruits.

5. Take your drug daily: This is very important even if you forget to take it at the usual time, just take it whenever you remember. Like let's say you normally take the drug at 9pm but then you forgot or you slept off. When you wake up just take it. DO NOT MISS A DOSE.

6. If you feel or have any changes in your body. Go to your doctor and explain to him/her. I'm saying this because after few months of taken her drug she was coughing persistently, her doctor had to give her some cough medicine. Although she's not using any cough medicine again as all symptoms has gone. Only the ARV drug and septrin.

The side effect of ARV drugs

The first month she started the drugs she complains of having nightmares, fatigue, headache, and dizziness but with time her body adapted to it and all the symptoms disappeared.

Having a strong immunity also plays important role in an HIV person. I think those with genotype AA tends to adapt well with HIV which explains why none of us know she has the virus in her body for over five years.

All I'm trying to get to is that having HIV is not the end of the world, it's not a death sentence. What kills most of these people is the fear and stigma from friends and family.

When people tell you they have HIV, do not run away from them like they are plague or some kind of viral infection. Love them, support them, play with them, laugh with them. You cannot contract the disease by playing with them, eating together, sharing cutleries, handshakes, hugs, etc.

In the end we are all going to die whether today or tomorrow, accident happens everyday. People slumps and die, people drown, fire accident happens, building collapse. I mean there are 1000 ways to die.

Those that you think they will die today, you may die before them. When it is your TIME, it is your TIME.

perryy:


HIV test is a fraud. By now , scientists should be able to make something that test for the virus and not the anti body. What if little quantity of HIV is introduced to my blood which ginger the anti body to be produced while the virus wasn't able to harm me ? Won't I still test positive to HIV antibody? If a test to antibody is a confirmation of the presence of a virus , how then is vaccination done ? If you are vacinnated , you must test positive to the anti body of to the virus you were vacinnated against. For example, if I take polio vaccine and I am tested for polio anti body, I must test positive. Does that mean I have polio? No. It simply means small amount of polio was introduced into my body but my body resisted it by producing enough antibody to counter it.

perryy:


HIV test is a fraud. By now , scientists should be able to make something that test for the virus and not the anti body. What if little quantity of HIV is introduced to my blood which ginger the anti body to be produced while the virus wasn't able to harm me ? Won't I still test positive to HIV antibody? If a test to antibody is a confirmation of the presence of a virus , how then is vaccination done ? If you are vacinnated , you must test positive to the anti body of to the virus you were vacinnated against. For example, if I take polio vaccine and I am tested for polio anti body, I must test positive. Does that mean I have polio? No. It simply means small amount of polio was introduced into my body but my body resisted it by producing enough antibody to counter it.

emeijeh:
Donstan18, this thread is for you

Notyamate:
Going through this thread https://www.nairaland.com/5795526/how-found-out-hiv-positive/1 I went through comments and I laugh at the IME, it is your TIME.

lefulefu:
lol its not easy to cut off from something u heavily addicted to.u cant just tell an alcoholic or a heavy smoker to stop smoking and u think he or she will just stop cos he or she has hiv.

Preshieben:
are you HIV positive?

ibkayee:
Helpful, positive information

Not to be a debbie downer however, but how accessible are these treatments for the average person in Nigeria? It isn't a death sentence when you have access to a certain quality of healthcare

Hopebringer:


Yeah read up on PEP and Truvada

Bro information is key

Hopebringer:



Yeah read up on PEP and Truvada

Bro information is key

nairalandbeast1:


If you did not like attention you won't be here quoting

Notyamate:
Going through this thread https://www.nairaland.com/5795526/how-found-out-hiv-positive/1 I went through comments and I laugh at the ignorance of some people on Nairaland. I'm sharing this story to people living with HIV reading this, you are not alone. Believe me there are many people out there with this disease, some happily married, growing old and having healthy kids.

On April 2013 my aunt got diagnosed with HIV at Catholic Hospital, Oluyoro. If you stay in Ibadan you'll know this hospital. She was 58 years at the time of her diagnosis. Before she was diagnosed she was getting sick and having symptoms like cold, head ache, sweating at night, and insomnia. We were worried because this is a person that hardly get sick, so we took her to a private hospital where the doctor told us she has typhoid. She was on drip for two days before discharge after that she was fine again. Not until 3 months later she started having those symptoms again, we didn't count it as anything and took her to that same hospital where she was given drips again. After the drips she was fine again.

The last straw was when she started vomiting and fainted on me, I was the only one at home that day. I performed CPR on her and then I decided to take her to a general hospital where proper medical examination can be done on her.

When we got there we queue, collect card and wait for doctor to attend to us. The doctor ask us some questions and the symptoms she has been having and for how long. After that the doctor directed us to where a nurse collected samples of her blood and we waited for the result.

When the doctor said she has HIV I couldn't believe my ears, all blood drained from my body and I was shaking. It was the last thing I expected because this was a person whose last born was 19years at the time. After she was diagnosed the doctor gave her drugs, she started explaining how to take the drug and how taking it everyday without missing a dose is important.

Our journey back home was quiet, I was thinking throughout, how did this happen? When we got home we meet my uncle (her husband) and we told her everything the doctor said. Everybody was just looking at one another, thinking 'we all don get HIV'.

The next morning my uncle took us all to the hospital to get tested and to know who and who have the disease. After going through the hospital routine our results came out. We were all tested negative including her husband, which brings all of us to ask, how did she get it? Till today no one knows. Her doctor says she has been living with it for over 5 years and none of us know including her.

My observations in her years of taking ARV drugs.

As I said earlier she was very sick when I took her to the hospital. Her CD4 count was 194, way too low. Normal CD4 count is from 500 to 1400. CD4 count is a test that measures how many CD4 cells you have in your blood. Low CD4 count means your body can't fight bacteria, viruses, and other invading germs.

Three months into the drugs she was tested again and her count was 242, another 3 months and it was 269.

She has been getting tested every six months and in the last five years her CD4 count has being between 340-390 and she hasn't suffer any illness whatsoever. Except for the drugs she's taken you won't know she has HIV.

How the drug is taken.

The drug is taken once in a day. It is left for you to decide when you want to take it but once you chose, you must be consistent with the time when you take the next dose so that it will be the exact time everyday. Doctors usually advise patients to take the drug at night because of the side effects which includes drowsiness and dizziness. The drug is taken 2 hrs after eating. When I asked the doctor why she said something about pepper and oil reacting with the drug.

The ARV drugs is free if you go to general hospital. The bottle contains 30 tablets to be complete in a month.

Important things you can do as an HIV person.

1. Avoid drinking alcohol/smoking as this can compromise your health condition. This is really very important.

2. Eat good and healthy food.

3. Exercise.

4. Eat a lot of fruit: her doctor emphasize on this. It doesn't have to be expensive, you can buy oranges, mangoes, bananas, watermelons and other cheap fruits.

5. Take your drug daily: This is very important even if you forget to take it at the usual time, just take it whenever you remember. Like let's say you normally take the drug at 9pm but then you forgot or you slept off. When you wake up just take it. DO NOT MISS A DOSE.

6. If you feel or have any changes in your body. Go to your doctor and explain to him/her. I'm saying this because after few months of taken her drug she was coughing persistently, her doctor had to give her some cough medicine. Although she's not using any cough medicine again as all symptoms has gone. Only the ARV drug and septrin.

The side effect of ARV drugs

The first month she started the drugs she complains of having nightmares, fatigue, headache, and dizziness but with time her body adapted to it and all the symptoms disappeared.

Having a strong immunity also plays important role in an HIV person. I think those with genotype AA tends to adapt well with HIV which explains why none of us know she has the virus in her body for over five years.

All I'm trying to get to is that having HIV is not the end of the world, it's not a death sentence. What kills most of these people is the fear and stigma from friends and family.

When people tell you they have HIV, do not run away from them like they are plague or some kind of viral infection. Love them, support them, play with them, laugh with them. You cannot contract the disease by playing with them, eating together, sharing cutleries, handshakes, hugs, etc.

In the end we are all going to die whether today or tomorrow, accident happens everyday. People slumps and die, people drown, fire accident happens, building collapse. I mean there are 1000 ways to die.

Those that you think they will die today, you may die before them. When it is your TIME, it is your TIME.